What is a Chinese American? A Chinese? An American? Or both? Or neither? These seemingly easy questions are hard to answer in terms of history, culture, ethnicity, and literature. In order to provide an answer to these questions, Chinese American writers transform a historical discourse into a historicist one to review history, an intrapersonal discourse into an interpersonal one to redefine autobiography, and a mythological discourse into a mythopoetical one to rewrite mythology, so as to transform an American Orientalist discourse into a Chinese American one for the reading and writing of Chinese American literature. As a consequence, the question What is a Chinese American? is transformed into an affirmation of what a Chinese American is.
| ISBN: | 9780820440965 |
| Publication date: | 23rd August 2000 |
| Author: | Joan Chiunghuei Chang |
| Publisher: | P. Lang an imprint of Lang, Peter, Publishing Inc. |
| Format: | Hardback |
| Pagination: | 202 pages |
| Series: | Modern American Literature |
| Genres: |
Literary studies: general Literary studies: c 1900 to c 2000 Society and culture: general |